Hey there!
I've been following this sub for a while now and I must say it changed my views on many things. It educated me and it made me educate myself on some topics. It also made me change my understanding of my employees and think about their salaries.
Obviously I'm not from the US and this is not another post on “omg poor Americans, how do you survive”. I'm looking for some clarifications, since we do things completely differently here and I, due to missing information don't understand it completely.
So here is my dilemma: you post your annual salary that ranges somewhere between 25k and 150k. I understand that is before taxes and you haven't got any insurance cowered in this. Now, in EU countries the gross monthly salary is somewhere between 2k and 4k, so let's say 3k, what would annually mean around 40k (including vaccation money). People living on average salary live comfortably, own cars, go on vacations, easily afford a family and a house (on a two salaries). I completely understand how you can't live of 25k, but 40k or even 80k sounds really comfortable for me. So guys, what information am I missing here?
For further clarification, in Austria if you get a average monthly pay of 4.540 eur, you take 3.100 eur home netto with all your taxes,(basic) health insurance and unemployment inssurance payed.